AUTHOR’S NOTE: After many years of making do with an absence of an official local burial ground, some citizens of Homer, in 1928, created a community cemetery. The day after the site was selected, the cemetery’s first occupant—Karl Albertson, the victim of a hunting accident—was brought home for interment.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Office of Emergency Management began installations of new tsunami siren equipment across the borough this week. Siren equipment in the 14 existent locations will be replaced, and two additional sirens will be built in new locations, totalling 16 tsunami siren installations by the project’s end.